thrive. tonight, several developing stories as we come on the air. the deadly storms slamming the east. the man swept away in rushing water. now a confirmed ef-2 tornado tearing through pennsylvania, ripping off roofs, sending trees onto homes. tonight here, the water rescues, the baby rescued. and now the blast of cold moving in for millions. the new fire in california tonight. breaking out overnight. exploding in size just outside los angeles. and the air assault now under way. the breaking headline just in tonight. the major name dropping out of the 2020 race. and elizabeth warren finally revealing how she'll pay for medicare for all. joe biden's team calling it mathematical gymnastics. president trump confirms his permanent residence will no longer be in new york city. where will he now call home? and new york's governor saying good riddance, that he didn't

pay taxes anyway. the manhunt. three heavily armed suspects stealing bags of cash from an armored truck outside a bank. the guard held at gunpoint. the new lawsuit. two women who say they called 911 four times with an intruder in the home attacking with a knife. they say 911 never sent help. the other major case. was alexa listening? the woman killed with a wooden spear. authorities are now poring through recordings from the couple's alexa, their amazon echo device. the deadly plane crash tonight, rehearsing for an air show. the nosedive, then exploding. actress lori loughlin pleading not guilty to a new charge tonight. and the very close call while taking this photo at the grand canyon. good evening. it's great to have you with us here the end the week together. a very busy night ahead. it's been a dangerous and deadly last 24 hours in the east.

a devastating storm slamming the east. tonight they have now confirmed there was an ef-2 tornado in delaware county, pennsylvania. winds up to 120 miles an hour. several homes damaged or destroyed. in new york, a state of emergency in at least 11 counties tonight. families rescued. this baby rescued from rising flood waters. one man, it's believed, was swept away. power lines down. this one in massachusetts. hundreds of thousands in the dark at its peak. and right behind all of this, very cold air sweeping in. gio benitez leads us off from madison, new jersey, tonight. >> reporter: tonight, powerful, deadly storms creating a state of emergency in the northeast. in upstate new york, swift water teams in the town of dolgeville navigating dangerously strong currents, rescuing this family from their home. governor andrew cuomo helping them to safety. later declaring that state of emergency. up to five inches of rain swamping cars in buffalo. first responders using boats and a ladder truck to save drivers. one man swept away in herkimer

county is still missing tonight. near boston, downed live power lines sparking. straight-line winds gusting near 70 miles an hour, knocking trees into homes. more than 800,000 losing power from a wet and windy halloween storm that sent trick-or-treaters scrambling. outside philadelphia, drivers blinded by debris from high winds and rain. >> [ bleep ]. i'm in a tornado! >> reporter: homes ripped apart in the middle of the night. >> one injury from a person outside the home that was hit by a tree, but people are banged up and bruised. >> reporter: first responders rescuing children and an elderly couple trapped in their bedroom. >> it sounded like a freight train in their bedroom. when they came outside, it looked like a freight train hit their house. >> reporter: at least eight homes destroyed after a direct hit by an ef-2 tornado with winds up to 120 miles per hour. >> just incredible images tonight. gio joins us live from madison, new jersey. i know officials there declared

a state of emergency as well? >> reporter: that's right. the state of emergency is in place due to so many downed power lines and trees. look at this. they'll be out tomorrow to survey the damage. right now, it's not clear whether this was a tornado or straight line winds. >> gio benitez, thank you. and we've not forgotten the west tonight. yet another new fire exploding in size breaking out overnight. this time in ventura county. north of los angeles. at least 2,300 buildings and homes threatened. thousands of families forced to evacuate there. tonight, the battle from the air to save the homes. abc's matt gutman on the fire lines tonight and the forecast on the santa ana winds. he was the santa paula, california. >> reporter: tonight, the last gasp of the historic santa ana wind event sparked the fast-moving maria fire. new evacuations under way, 8,000 residents already ordered to leave their homes. >> boy, a shift in the winds has really turned things for the worse here. >> reporter: dc-10s and chinook helicopters among the aircraft

leading this massive aerial assault. >> they're doing everything they can do on this northern edge of the fire to try and stop this from spreading. >> reporter: on the ground, a race to get farm animals to safety. dogs and humans scrambling out of the fire zone. the fire exploding in size overnight to more than 8,000 acres in less than 10 hours. residents and firefighters banding together to fight the flames. that galloping fire incinerating aaron lewis' neighbor's home in an instant. >> between -- it was 300 yards away to fully engulfed in maybe five minutes. >> reporter: parts of southern california under critical fire danger all week. as we saw at the easy fire. right now we're about to get dropped on. you can hear that plane coming through. look out! those treacherous conditions confronting thousands of firefighters as they beat back the flames. reporting tonight from santa paula, california.

matt, as i mentioned, this fire, too, exploding in size in just a matter of hours? >> reporter: going from zero to 8,000 acres or more in the span of six or seven hours. and of the dozen or so fires we've seen over the past eight hellish days here, this has grown the fastest and been the largest. mercifully, the santa ana winds that fueled all of this are dying down this weekend. david? >> matt gutman reporting from california again tonight. matt, thank you. let's get right to ginger zee, in washington, d.c., tonight where they, too, were under a tornado watch during the storm that hit the east. ginger, now very cold air and windy air behind all this. >> reporter: it was 77 degrees yesterday with a tornado watch here in washington, d.c. now we have a hard freeze warning for tonight all the way back to mississippi. let's show you the 24-hour temperature changes. big time drop from jacksonville, florida to, raleigh. state college, 35-degree drop.

tomorrow morning, sub-freezing temperatures in a nashville. certainly could see frost around here. if you're planning to go to the nats parade, don't set up too early, but it will rebound back to around 50 degrees by the time it kicks off. >> a lot of fans celebrating the nats. ginger, thank you. and a breaking headline about the race for 2020. former congressman beto o'rourke announcing he's dropping off the race. coming just hours after elizabeth warren described her plans to pay for medicare for all. joe biden's campaign calling it mathematical gymnastics. here's terry moran. >> reporter: he was once heralded as the new face of the democratic party, but tonight, beto o'rourke is out. the candidate tweeting, our campaign has always been about seeing clearly, speaking honestly, and acting decisively. in that spirit, i am announcing that my service to the country will not be as a candidate or as the nominee. the former texas congressman joined the race with great fanfare, but he never caught on with voters. after the mass shooting in his hometown of el paso in august,

o'rourke seized on gun control as an issue to jumpstart his campaign. david asking him about his plan for mandatory buybacks of assault weapons. >> you know the critics call this confiscation. are you proposing taking away their guns? and how would this work? >> i am. if it's a weapon that was designed to kill people on a battlefield. hell, yes, we're going to take your ar-15, your ak-47. >> reporter: o'rourke's move there not enough to boost his campaign. he drops out with another candidate on the rise. in iowa, where she is now the front-runner, elizabeth warren today revealed how she would pay for her plan to revolutionize american health care. >> i have a plan that shows that we can have medicare for all without raising taxes one cent on middle-class families. >> reporter: under the warren plan, private, employer-sponsored health insurance, the way more than half of all americans get their coverage, would be eliminated. instead, all americans would get

free health care from the federal government. on the campaign trail, her democratic opponents have been hammering her for not explaining how she'd pay for such a gigantic new program. >> i think we owe it to the american people to tell them where we're gonna send the invoice. >> your signature, senator, is to have a plan for everything, except this. >> reporter: today warren declared her plan would cost $52 trillion over ten years, including $20.5 trillion in new federal spending. she says she would pay for it with trillions in new taxes on corporations and on the wealthiest americans, and with spending cuts including $800 billion from the pentagon. >> terry moran with us live. this has been the issue since the last debate. so no surprise when joe biden was quick to offer a review of elizabeth warren's plan. >> reporter: he sure was, david. joe biden saying she's making it up, it will be a lot more expensive than she says. and his campaign saying the plan

is mathematical gymnastics, as you said. but on this issue, as with so much else, it's elizabeth warren setting the agenda, and the other candidates responding. david? >> terry moran tonight, great to have you. president trump confirming he's changed his permanent residence from new york city to florida. blasting new york's mayor and governor saying they haven't treated him, quote, properly. new york's governor saying good riddance, that he never paid taxes anyway and that he's all yours, florida. here's jonathan karl. >> reporter: donald trump has long portrayed himself as the ultimate new yorker. here he was with barbara walters more than three decades ago. >> when you look at that wonderful skyline, do you say, i own that and that and that and that? >> well, i look at that skyline, barbara, and i really say it's the greatest in the world and i'm very proud to be a part of it. >> reporter: and here during the presidential campaign. >> you will never get more of a new yorker if you want a president than you are getting with me. >> reporter: but now we have learned he has signed papers officially making palm beach, florida, his permanent residence.

it had long been trump tower on fifth avenue in new york. it's a move that may save him millions in taxes. unlike new york, florida has no income tax. and it doesn't have an inheritance tax either. but tonight, the president insisted that's not why he made the move. >> i pay millions of taxes. millions and millions of dollars in new york. since i became president, they just haven't treated, i think, the office with the kind of respect. >> reporter: new york governor andrew cuomo, a democrat, shot back with his own tweet -- good riddance. it's not like @realdonaldtrump paid taxes here anyway. he's all yours, florida. >> let's get to jon karl live at the white house. and late today, the governor suggesting there may be another reason the president wants to move out of new york? >> reporter: governor cuomo suggested the president may be doing this because of legal challenges he faces in new york, including a lawsuit to from the district attorney forcing him to release his tax

returns. moving to florida won't necessarily affect any of that. and the president shot back today saying, i love new york, but new york can never be great under the leadership of andrew cuomo. >> jon karl with us live on a friday night. thank you, jon. new developments in the search for a missing college student in alabama. the reward raised to $105,000. last seen in in surveillance the night she went missing. tonight, what police have now revealed, believing she's the victim of foul play. here's abc's steve osunsami. >> reporter: federal and state authorities searching tonight for this missing alabama college student believe she's been hurt and could be in serious danger. aniah blanchard hasn't been seen since this security camera recorded her making a purchase at a convenience store last week wednesday. the suv she was driving that night was found empty, about 50 miles away, two days later. police aren't yet sharing details, but say that evidence removed from the vehicle led them to believe she was wounded. >> in this case, that's what so heartbreaking is she's just a

college student. she is living a college student life. >> reporter: police believe she may have been on her way to meet someone, but don't know who. her stepfather is ufc fighter walt harris. tonight, he and others are donating more than $105,000 for a reward for any helpful information. >> if somebody out there knows anything, or knows the whereabouts of my daughter, please, please, please, i beg you to let someone know. >> reporter: her family says her debit card was last used the night she went missing. she is a student at southern union state community college. david? >> all right, steve osunsami tonight. thank you. next this evening the urgent manhunt in colorado after the brazen robbery there of a brinks truck outside of a bank the guard held at gunpoint. here's kayna whitworth. >> reporter: the fbi tonight desperately hunting for these three masked men who robbed a brinks armored truck in broad daylight. the suspects lying in wait outside a denver-area bank, then pouncing as the brinks

guard heads to that truck. one of the thieves, investigators say, armed with an ak-47-style rifle. the other two armed with semiautomatic handguns. one suspect holding a gun to the worker's head as the other two ransack the truck. police believe the suspects are between 5'10" to 6 feet tall. their getaway car, a grey nissan pathfinder with a stolen license plate, making a speedy escape. david, the fbi says all three suspects face a minimum of 20 years in prison, likely more. and right now they're asking for the public's help in identifying them. david? >> kayna, thank you. and a tragic halloween night in chicago. a 7-year-old girl fighting to survive tonight after being shot while trick-or-treating. she was dressed as a bumblebee in a crowd of other children wearing costumes. police believe she was not the intended target. tonigh we have learned they do have a person of interest in custody. now to the outrage and the new lawsuit.

a utah woman and her sister were being attacked in their home by a violent exconvict. one sister calling 911 four times, she says. but she says the dispatcher never sent help. here's adrienne bankert. >> he's stabbing my sister! he stabbed her! >> reporter: these desperate 911 calls. breann lasley stabbed, her sister kayli pleading for help after an ex-convict broke into their utah home and attacked them with a knife. >> i could see his left hand strangling my sister up against the wall that her head had just gone through. >> reporter: the women say they called 911 four times from cell phones while trying to fend off their assailant, at times pleading with him. >> what do you want? >> hello? >> what do you want? i'll give you anything you want. what do you want? >> hello? >> reporter: but despite those calls, breann says police were never dispatched to the home. >> it was just this feeling of hopelessness. there was nothing i could do. >> reporter: she is now suing priority dispatch, the company that designed the dispatch software, for negligence.

claiming police were never sent to the home because the system requires operators to ask a series of scripted prompts and pre-determined questions before police could be dispatched. but tonight, the 911 software company says, unfortunately our system was never opened or used because they could not determine an address. david, place say they did respond to that scene and within minutes. the sisters tell us one of them ran outside for help, found an officer, who ended up killing their attacker. david? >> adrienne, thank you. still ahead on "world news tonight" this friday, the deadly plane crash. the pilot rehearsing for an air show when plane then took a nose do i have and exploded. police in a murder investigation now asking, was alexa listening? the woman killed with a wooden spear. authorities pouring through recordings from the couple's amazon echo device. and the very close call while taking a photo at the grand canyon. the near fall. we have a lot more news to get to right here on a friday night. e near fall. we have a lot more news to get to right here on a friday night. lot more news to get

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we turn next tonight to a murder inves we turn next tonight to a murder investigation in florida. a woman killed, and authorities are now examining the couple's alexa device, their amazon echo. was it listening? here's abc's victor oquendo. >> reporter: tonight, police in florida pouring over audio recordings from this couple's amazon echo dot devices as part of a bizarre murder investigation. detectives hoping to find audio from the night silvia galva was killed by a spear. her boyfriend now charged with her murder. >> i ordinarily i wouldn't want these recordings, i would jump up and down and object because i think it's an invasion of privacy. in this case, i actually am looking forward to the recordings. i think they're going to show the truth. >> reporter: according to the police report from july, the couple had been arguing. and as he tried pulling her off the bed, she grabbed a wooden spear. she heard a snap, and the blade had penetrated the victim's chest. hallandale beach pd confirms amazon handed over the devices. the company saying, amazon does

not disclose customer information in response to government demands unless we're required to do so to comply with a legally valid and binding order. amazon adding that audio is not recording unless it hears a key wake word like alexa. his attorneys say if there are any recordings, they will only prove his client's innocence. >> victor oquendo thank you. when we come back, more on the deadly plane crash. and the near fall at the grand canyon while they were taking a photograph. back, more on the deadly plane crash. and the near fall at the grand canyon while they were taking a photograph. the grand canyon while they were taking a photograph. it's a pill that treats plaque psoriasis differently. with otezla, 75% clearer skin is achievable. don't use if you're allergic to otezla. it may cause severe diarrhea, nausea, or vomiting. otezla is associated with... ...an increased risk of depression. tell your doctor if you have a history of depression or suicidal thoughts or if these feelings develop. some people taking otezla reported weight loss. your doctor should monitor your weight and may stop treatment upper respiratory tract infection and headache may occur. tell your doctor about your medicines and if you're pregnant

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finally tonight, "america strong." the little dracula who clearly was not out for blood. it turns out he has a very kind heart. >> trick or treat. >> last night, a trick-or-treater's worst nightmare, caught on this front door cam in gambrills, maryland. watch as 8-year-old jackson champagne, dressed as dracula, walks up to that orange bowl. no candy left. even dracula, stumped. he says to his mom, no more candy. >> there ain't no more candy. >> no more candy? >> oh, no. >> reporter: then the supposedly

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this is a new normal i think for california moving forward. >> this cannot be the new normal. we can't accept it as the new normal and we won't. >> i hope it's not the new normal, but we've got to do what we've got to do. >> i think it probably will become a new normal. i don't think that we should be okay with that. >> all of a sudden in a very strange way, this has become our new normal. >> i fully expect the power to keep going off. >> when they tell you they're ging to turn it off, believe them. >> i just think we're used to it around here now. if you don't have a plan, you should. >> we're hoping they're not doing this out of convenience. i hope it is definitely for safety. >> i really don't believe what pg&e is saying, that the issue here is helping to prevent fires. i think a lot of it is greed. >> i think there's a lot of blame put on pg&e and i think they're trying to be as proactive as they can. >> they should probably be

investing more putting their power lines underground but that's about it. >> do you think they will? >> not unless someone kicks them in the butt. it's going to take a lot of money to change the actual problem. >> do you think they will? >> not any time soon. >> this is not the new normal. this cannot take ten years to resolve. hold them accountable. >> the new normal. it's something many are talking about and it's a conversation we want to continue as part of our commitment to building a better bay area. good evening and thank you for joining us, i'm dan ashley. >> and i'm ama daetz. year-round fire seasons, planned blackouts, evacuations in the middle of the night. it's enough to make people scared and frustrated and wonder what is happening to our quality of life. >> a lot of people asking that question. it's enough to make people think about moving out and wonder how we fix the problems in one of the most beautiful places on earth. fire, power, wind, what now? we have a spe